Climate crisis
Carbon offset markets aren’t working. A new private-sector reform movement aims to make them better
Will this reboot spur real reductions in carbon emissions — or just usher in another wave of corporate greenwashing?
Emissions reduction
Hydrogen
The great ‘green hydrogen’ battle
Tens of billions in federal tax credits could build a vital low-carbon hydrogen industry — or increase carbon emissions. We tackle the complexities in a series.
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Guest Essay
How to green the steel industry? Start with steel buyers
As we push to decarbonize heavy industry, it helps to start with an industry's customers.
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Solar
Newsletter: Nature abhors a vacuum, carbon accounting edition
Startups are jumping in to fill a policy gap when it comes to business-sector carbon tracking.
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Clean industry
Carbon accounting is hard. These startups want to make it easier
In the absence of policy, can the corporate community decarbonize itself?
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Climate crisis
How do you know if a climate policy is good? Here’s the test
Clean electrification at warp speed for the next decade is the most important thing of all.
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Guest Essay
Cities want to ban natural gas in new construction. State lawmakers are blocking them
Twenty states have already passed "ban the ban" laws and more might follow suit. They're backed by money and lobbyists from the gas industry.
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Carbon-free buildings
Newsletter: The hard truth about clean concrete
Plus, the limits of moderation in the climate context.
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Climate crisis
IEA: World still has ‘narrow’ path to reach net-zero carbon by 2050
Adding clean energy capacity at unprecedented rates and halting all fossil fuel investment could avert the worst climate change impacts — if governments can commit to action.
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Policy & regulation
The decarbonization gap that's splitting Colorado Democrats
A new analysis offers criticism — and potential solutions — in the battle between an incentives-based approach and demanding mandatory emissions limits.
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Climate crisis
Newsletter: Banking on "technologies that we don't yet have"
Something to keep in mind while processing the comments from Climate Envoy John Kerry that kicked up a ruckus over the weekend.
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